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Bleed – a printing term that means that the image on the page foes beyond the edge of the sheet before cutting. It is the area that will be trimmed off.

CMYK – CMYK is an abbreviation of Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black and is a colour model setting used in colour printing or sending high quality colour images

Colour separated copy

Drop Cap – A large inital letter that drops below the first line of the paragraph. They are usually used to ark the beginning of a section in a book or magazine.

Greeking – a style of displaying text or symbols.

Gutter – the blank space between two facing pages.

Hanging indent – a paragraph that has all lines but the first indent.

Hard copy – a printed version of a computer document.

Hyphenation – the division of a word usually at the end of a line on a page.

Justified text – a typesetting that aligns text or images within a column to align along both the left and right margin.

Kerning – adjusting the spacing between characters in a piece of text that is to be printed.

Leading – the distance between the baseline of text.

Legibility of text – the more legible the text is, the easier it is for someone to read.

Margin – the edge or boarder of the page.

Monochrome – an image in blalck and white or varying tones of a single colour.

Orphan – where the first line of a paragraph is the last line of a page or column.

Point (Pt) (In terms of text size) – a point is a measurement in which text is measured within a document.

Readability of text – the quality of the language used that makes it easy to read and understand.

RGB – RGB is an abbreviation of Red Green Blue and is a colour model that uses red, green and blue light for electronic images displayed on email, screen or internet. It can alsobe used for low quality printing.

Serif – the finishing stroke of a letter in certain typefaces

Text wrapping – where the text within a document wraps around an image.

Widow – a single, usually short line of type, as one ending a paragraph, carried over to the top of the next page or column.

Pull quote – an attention grabbing quote taken from a main article of text.

Copy fitting – adjusting a copy (text) to the space where you want it to fit by editing the text or changing the type size and leading.

Stand first – an introductory paragraph in an article, printed in larger type which summarizes the article.

Slug – it is used to identify the story of a document. usually one or 2 words typed onto the document in the upper left or right hand corner of the page.